OMG! I'm still digesting all the information I have received today.
I opened my mailbox to find an envelope from the state child welfare division, and all the way back to my apt I couldn't figure out what it was.
It appears the woman at the vital record office at teh county courthouse was wrong. Kansas is an open record state, and today I received all the offocial papers regarding my adoption decree. Daddy was never named, but Mommy dearest was apparently white trash from the get-go.
JoAnn Taylor was indeed my biological mother. I am so putting that on the internet!
I'm kind of reeling from it all, so all I'm going to say until i come to some rational decisions, which are not likely on this $100 bottle of wine I just opened, is...
My name is Douglas Taylor.